Dad Quote by Dennis Skinner

I never, ever romanticise life in the pit. It was a hard, dirty, noisy, tiring, dangerous job in a confined space, a very dark…

— Dennis Skinner

Parties are organised happiness but happiness is accidental. You can't legislate for it.

— Dennis Skinner

I'm up at the crack of dawn.

— Dennis Skinner

I've never made a perfect speech or a perfect anything. I always think after, I should have done it that way or this way.

— Dennis Skinner

I've never done any cross-party stuff. I've no interest in sitting down discussing pensions or whatever with Tories.

— Dennis Skinner

Cameron called me a dinosaur you know? Well I'm the only dinosaur who can ride a bike 12 miles a day.

— Dennis Skinner

I didn't know when Parliament started to pay my wages.

— Dennis Skinner

I solemnly swear that I will bear true and faithful allegiance to the Queen when she pays her income tax

— Dennis Skinner

I still think carefully about what I'm going to say. I use me heart and head technique, in which the heart says, 'get stuck…

— Dennis Skinner

Isn't it essential in any prelude to a war to be sure of your allies and be sure of your objectives?

— Dennis Skinner

We dragged the National Health Service from the depths of degradation. I've got a United Nations heart bypass to prove it and it was…

— Dennis Skinner

There are only so many things you can do in life, and if you think I'm going to spend my waking hours thinking about…

— Dennis Skinner